Anonymous Patron writes “The New York Times has more on all those missing books at the National Library in France. Even so, Le Figaro asserted that the report provides a disturbing portrait of the difficulties of protecting as many as 35 million books, documents, manuscripts, maps and photographs.
“To turn the library into a locked safe would be easy, but it is not our vocation,” the newspaper quoted Agnès Saal, the library’s director-general, as saying. “Unlike museums, our documents are there to be consulted.””
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